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Follow Our Journey: The Feast of Esther is Homesick
Jan Lievens, The Feast of Esther, circa 1625–26, oil on canvas, 53 x 65 in., Purchased with funds from the State of North Carolina Has there been a time in your life when you were so excited to go on...
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Follow Our Journey: The Story of the Mosaic
We have been together for a long time. Yet we also look forward to the great change ahead of us—a new world of light and sky. We can still remember, but just barely, the days when we were not united,...
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Follow Our Journey: Big Man On Campus
Frank Philip Stella, Raqqa II, American, 1970, synthetic polymer and graphite on canvas,120 x 300 in., Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Hanes, © 2009 Frank Stella/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York It’s...
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Follow Our Journey: The Lone German
Anselm Kiefer, Untitled, 1980–86, oil, acrylic, emulsion, shellac, lead, charcoal, and straw on photograph, mounted on canvas with stones, lead, and steel cable, various dimensions, Purchased with...
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Follow Our Journey: Talking Heads
Ledelle Moe, Congregation, 2005–07, concrete, dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist, © 2009 Ledelle Moe We can’t remember a time when we’ve been apart. You see, like most groups, we are stronger...
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Follow Our Journey: The Feast Family Reunion
It has been quite a busy year! Until recently I had been on the road with the special exhibition Jan Lievens: A Dutch Master Rediscovered. It is not uncommon for paintings like me to travel the world....
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Thirty-Five Years from the Front Line
This April Emmett McNeill will likely be reminiscing about an April nearly 30 years ago when he witnessed the NCMA’s transformative move from a cramped government office building downtown to...
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Experience The Thinker
We’ve all seen Rodin’s figure of The Thinker in the most unfortunate circumstances: brooding in front of an open fridge, humiliated in a bright red Santa hat, poorly cartooned on a dingy office mug...
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Sharing Moments
It is always so interesting to be behind the scenes of a project, to see how all the pieces intertwine, and to know the stories that make up the history of how something great came to be. As staff...
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For the Birds
The birds have a new roost. For the first time ever at the North Carolina Museum of Art, all four volumes of John James Audubon’s The Birds of America are currently on view. Believe me, this has been a...
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